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Story: Computer Aid: New life for old IT
Posted by: Anonymous (Thursday 10 February 2005, 6:26 PM)
Hmmm so what hapened to those 486 machines in Africa tha UK CIOs 'kicked out'. They just end up being dumped in African countried that dont have controlled landfills - now how does this benefit the environment or anyone else apart from the owner of this Computer Aid outfit ? The whole idea behand WEEE directive is to get away from this, now why is ZDNET supporting somehting like this is beyond me. They collect PCs that are waste and sell them to africa for 50 quid - that sounds like a business not a charity. Second hand PCs costs that much in the UK so where is the benefit and how do we know that these PCs are going to Africa to the schools with all the corruption ???
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Hmmm so what hapened to those 486 machines in Afri... Anonymous -
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In response to the two comments above, I should ma... matt loney
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Dear Matt, it is good to see idealist like you ar... Anonymous
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the 'away' in thrown away just means 'somehwere el... Anonymous
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According to the WEEE Directive (and this article... Anonymous
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WEEE directive is meant to protect the environment... Anonymous
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Please help us in giving us 1 laptop for our assoc... Willie Sau Kaitu'u
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We do appreciate your work of donating second hand... Francis Ejang Ajuk
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